Shirt.



Patented Dec. 30, I902.

No. mm.

B. LICHTIG.

SHIRT.

(Application filed July 1, 1902.)

(No Model.)

ATTORNEY.

w W M M WITNESSES:

UNrrnp STATES PATENT OFFICE.

BERNAT LICHTIG, OF SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA.

SHIRT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 717,102, dated December 30, 1902.

Application filed July 1, 1902. Serial No. 113,974- (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, BERNAT LICHTIG, a citizen of the United States, residing at San Francisco, in the county of San Francisco and State of California, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Shirts, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in shirts, the object of my invention being to provide a cheap and convenient form of shirt having substitute shirt-fronts, so that a shirt may be worn for a longer period without the necessity of changing the same by reason of the shirt-front thereof being soiled.

My invent-ion therefore resides in the novel construction, combination, and arrangement of parts for the above ends hereinafter fully specified, and particularly pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a front view of a shirtprovided with my improvement. Fig. 2 is a similar View of the same, showing the auxiliary fronts spread out at the sides. Fig. 3 is an enlarged transverse section of the shirt with the shirt-fronts in place. Fig. 4: is a top view of the neck portion of the shirt.

Referring to the drawings, 1 represents a shirt-body having the usual shirt-front 2, which may be either open or closed. At the sides of said front are formed in said body the slits 3, and to said body outside said slits are attached, by means of wings 4:, auxiliary shirt-fronts 5. W'hen the main shirt-front 2 is in use, these auxiliary fronts 5 are passed through the slits 3 and lie in place at the back of the same. is soiled, one of the auxiliary fronts is drawn out through the corresponding slit and is laid on the top of the main front, completely covering the same and providing a freshclean surface. In like manner when *the second shirt-front is soiled the third shirt-front is drawn out through the slit and is laid on the Then the main front 2- top of the second front, providing a third clean shirt-front. Each of the auxiliary fronts is provided with a neckband 7, which when the front is in use is placed over the neckband of the shirt and is attached by means of buttonholes 8. The auxiliary fronts are also secured in place by means of studs passed through buttonholes 0 in all of said fronts at the top and bottom. Additional advantage is derived from this construction, in that it permits of the color of the shirt-front being varied at pleasure, this being accomplished by providing the main shirt-front and the auxiliary fronts of various colors.

I claim 1. A shirt having a main shirt-front per manently attached at each of its upper corners to the neckband, and attached at the bottom to theshirt-body, said shirt having anopening or slit between the body and the side of the front, and having an auxiliary shirt-front permanently attached along one side and passed through said slit to change the front in use, substantially as described.

2. A shirt having a main shirt-front permanently attached at the top to the shirt and separated at the sides from the shirt-body,

and auxiliary fronts one on each side of the through said slits, substantially as described.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of twosubscribing witnesses.

BERNAT LICHTIG.

Witnesses:

FRANCIS M. WRIGHT, Bnssrn GORFINKEL. 

